MedPage Today March 31, 2025
— Here’s how to help reestablish hospitals as safe spaces
The mission of the healing professions and healthcare institutions is the health of patients and their communities. It is not to police them. But politics sometimes creates conditions that jeopardize this mission.
In fact, in the past few years, we have seen states like Florida and Texas enact policies that erode trust in healthcare and put healthcare facilities in the position of policing patients. Florida hospitalsopens in a new tab or window that accept Medicaid are now mandated to collect data on patients’ immigration status, and Texas public hospitalsopens in a new tab or window are mandated to collect data on costs they incur to provide emergency and inpatient care...
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